Zitat des Tages über Wählen / Elect:
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
I don't believe this nation will elect a socialist.
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
What you get when you elect Lisa Murkowski is you get somebody who builds on that legacy that Ted Stevens built for our state for 40 years that continues on that path, that trajectory, to helping a young state like Alaska build us out.
If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.
It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.
Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?
The citizens of Michigan elect the justices to resolve the complex disputes that reach the Supreme Court, and we must not shrink from that duty.
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.
It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.
I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mother of five and no hope for the researcher who might find a cure for cancer. We cannot elect a leader who is willfully ignorant to the outcry of young people who want real criminal justice reform and responsible gun safety legislation now.
We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.
